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jeremybrown82

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« on: June 08, 2007, 05:19:00 PM »

Sorry i didnt hyperlink the url to the adapter, but before that..


I would like to assess a few questions or ideas for people to look at for console hacking..

1. Firstly is it possible to use the SATA (hard drive) interface on the 360 console to connect a SATA (360) dvd drive to it?

2. Since multiple usb devices can be connected on a hub..
Is it possilbe to convert (using an adapter) the sata interface on either the harddrive port or the dvd port (of the console) to a usb hub, then hook up either a spare xbox 360 harddrive or dvd drive to the usb hub (using another adapter)? In this sence one could "hookup" a couple extra 120GB harddrives or a spare dvd drive for backup/homebrew reasons..

3. Use an original xbox 360 dvd drive (chipped) or (custom firmware) in a hd-dvd enclousre made for the xbox and connecting its usb to the xbox usb port.

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Thanks,
Jeremy

P.S. I'll post more ideas as they come up..

Sata to Usb

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and here is another link to an hd-dvd replacement drive and below that a link to a plain old dvd drive..

Link to hd-dvd drive

Link to dvd-drive (360)

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And a few crazy things people have done

Ipod Dock for the 360

Xbox 360 laptop

Sata Hdd Controler card adapter
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Sorry if i bumb too soon, please advise.
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The Prankster

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« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2007, 05:53:00 PM »

Sorry, but everything you're proposing is not within reach of the current xbox 360 hacking community. I'm guessing it never will be either. Everything you're wanting to do is just competely not feasible through any means. All the pinouts for the xbox 360 are specific, the xbox 360 EXPECTS a dvd drive on the SATA port for the dvd drive, it also EXPECTS an HDD on the custom SATA port for the HDD. Though they both are SATA ports, it's the logic of the xbox one at work here(sort of), if you switched the HDD and the DVD drive on the IDE cable, it wouldn't work(HDD is device 2... DVD drive device 1), because it has predetermined settings of WHERE these devices will be on the motherboard and/or cable. The xbox 360 will not look on another bus/port for the dvd drive, and if you managed to switch them for the correct SATA pinouts of the motherboard to the SATA cable to the DVD + HDD, they would not work, the xbox 360 wouldn't be sending the correct commands to the drives, it would be trying to find the HDD on the DVD drive and the DVD drive on the HDD.

And to the USB dvd drive... that would in essence work, but someone would need to create another firmware for the drive JUST for that, and that won't happen, because there is no reason for someone to need a USB regular DVD drive.

If you're going to mod, you need to void your warranty, that's the price you have to pay for wanting to make more use out of the xbox 360.

Here's a link to a tutorial for having a 120gb USB drive. Well it's not really a mod persay, but it's something.
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The Prankster

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« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2007, 06:50:00 PM »

jeremybrown82 you're still not getting it, the thing is that none of this is possible at all at the moment, and chances are that it will NOT be possible in the future.

And to that SATA hub, that simply won't work, it doesn't matter what SATA version it is, you can't add a hub to it and add more devices, that won't work. The xbox 360 is looking for one device, and one only, if you add two, with a hub, you would get an error of some kind.

I'm saying now, EVERYTHING YOU ARE TRYING + THROWING OUT HERE AS 'IDEAS', is NOT POSSIBLE through any reasonable means.

Goodbye.
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